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On October 14, the voting public will be asked to vote “yes” or “no” on a proposed First Nations Voice to Parliament.

With each passing month, Scott Morrison is developing into a post-prime-ministership peculiarity. Well over a year since voters cast him from power, he remains limpet-like in the House of Representatives, defying speculation that he is ready to quit parliament and trigger a byelection in his New South Wales seat of…

Few Australians are losing sleep over how Scott Morrison is going to earn a crust after politics. Few outside the federal Coalition, at any rate. His continuing presence on the opposition backbench serves as a distraction from the present and reminder of the past. Unfortunately, that past keeps intruding on…

On reflection, Simon Crean was probably the first domino to fall in a certain madness that seized Labor during the Howard era and presaged a decade of turmoil that only settled down under Bill Shorten’s leadership (2013-19).

Australian Labor is mourning the death of Simon Crean.

The Australian Labor Party is mourning the death on Sunday of Simon Crean, a Labor prince who never became king.

Labor luminary, unionist-turned-politician and former leader Simon Crean has died at the age of 74 on Sunday.

Crean, former opposition leader and ACTU president, died suddenly while overseas on Sunday

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